last year it was to get back in the top10 users for Cahiers and Junpo, this year it's going to be a bronze award on the Asian field guide.
I guess some of us can do this in like two weeks but like I said, I have many other goals
this should be doable in a few months though, so lets see how far I can take it!

- Average at least one film a day
- Write mini-reviews for every film I watch
- Have less than 10 lists left for the Top 500 club (23 currently)
- Platinum on TSPDT (23 to go)
- Platinum on TSZDT (50 to go)
- Platinum on all IMDb lists except for Sport, Documentary and TV mini-series (12 left)

"I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want." - Stanley Kubrick

Maybe ill revisit my goals once in a while. Years before i forgot or/and got too depressed
25+ from 1969
10-15 from 1919
Especially movies from xxx9 years
They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? to 800 from 766
get to top 1000 on 10 more list (27 remaining)
366 Weird Movies (Certified Weird) get to 275 from 254 / 362
The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films from 664 to 690
Doubling the Canon from 306 to 333
iCM Forum's 500<400 from 112 to 125

I just want to get interested in watching films again. There are so many things I’m putting off watching because I’ve generally been in the wrong mood for anything and everything the last four or five months. Can’t even bring myself to watch the new Orson movie because I don’t want my current state of mind to ruin what could otherwise be a really great experience.

ICMMarch Challenge: But at the bottom, the immanent philosopher sees in the entire universe only the deepest longing for absolute annihilation, and it is as if he clearly hears the call that permeates all spheres of heaven: Redemption! Redemption! Death to our life! and the comforting answer: you will all find annihilation and be redeemed!

I just want to get interested in watching films again. There are so many things I’m putting off watching because I’ve generally been in the wrong mood for anything and everything the last four or five months. Can’t even bring myself to watch the new Orson movie because I don’t want my current state of mind to ruin what could otherwise be a really great experience.

I know what you mean. I had that for something like 18 months. Just didn't feel like watching anything. It was a bit frustrating, but ultimately, the desire came back, although it was different, more "fragile." Right now, though, I'm just waiting for the kids to be put to bed so I can start watching my movie.

1. Watch 36 films on all 36 official challenges
2. Get at least a bronze award on all of the official lists (currently 13 to go)
3. Watch all of the Olympic films on the Criterion list
4. Finally start watching Twin Peaks (1990 & 2017)
5. Finish the complete Monty Python's Flying Circus

I mostly add feature films to my watchlist in batches...around 25-30 at a time. For a month or so, I've been narrowing down a fresh set to add for the new year, but I've also pre-emptively watched 12-13 candidates along the way just to avoid adding them (I don't like my watchlist becoming too large, if possible). Some of these films included "Mother Joan of the Angels," "Threads," "The Lure," "Homo Sapiens," "One More Time with Feeling," "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea," "The Other Side of Hope" (hrm, not so good) and "Solo: A Star Wars Story."

I still have 40 candidates left to research and sort through -- I'd rather not add much more than half of them. I don't add a stack like this more than a couple of times a year, so getting this process done is kind of a "goal." Otherwise, I don't have film goals beyond just continuing to see interesting/enjoyable stuff. Also, to make some new discoveries. If I were forced to declare rigid goals, they wouldn't have anything to do with ICM awards or rankings. I do loosely work on several pet lists such as Amos Vogel, 500<400, Criterion Collection, 366 Weird, ICM's favorite experimental/avant-garde movies, All Shorts on ICM Lists and Chaotic Cinema, but if I get to a place where none of the remaining films on those lists sound interesting, I'm fine with moving on.

I've long had an arbitrary goal to see every "unofficial" short under 46 minutes that appears on 13 or more lists, but the exasperating snarl of overlapping Academy Award lists has really fouled up this pursuit during the past year. I'm having to trudge through Oscar nominee after Oscar nominee, and most of them are conservative, goodie-goodie and just not fun. I may raise the cut-off threshold to 14 lists sometime soon, because the tally of eligible unseen shorts just keeps creeping upward. Currently, it's 60. Before the Oscar problem became so pronounced, the list's size typically wobbled around the upper 20s.

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Even more basic goals this year. I want to fill in a lot of gaps this last year of the decade, and also focus more on my geographic expansion of film-watching in anticipation of the Project I want to run in 2020. I've set a bunch of individual goals for a lot of the lists, but I won't be keeping track of them here as it's not so important for me to hit those goals before the end of this year. And since I'm now past 25% of my all-time film goal, I'll aim for Tin awards on my decade and country/region breakdowns by the end of the year too: 5 decades ('10s, '20s, '40s, '50s, '70s - all of which are feasible) to go and 25 countries/regions (Great Britain, France, Japan, South Asia, Greater China, Italy, Spain, Russia, MENA, Korea, Iran, Poland, Sub-Saharan Africa, Czechia&Slovakia, Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Ireland, Baltics, Caucasus, Central Asia - 20 of which I'd say are feasible) to go.

Lastly, I want to get the number of notable* directors of which I haven't seen a single (feature-length) film to under 500 (currently at 561), including (finally) all of these prolific directors that I've somehow managed to avoid thus far: Herzog, M. Mann, Stone, Hackford, Haneke, W. Hill, Miike, Wood, August, Arthur Penn, Greenaway, Rohmer, Wajda, Cromwell, Dieterle, Brown, Robson, Hong, Lloyd, T. Perry*Notable in that they've made at least 4 films and I track them in my spreadsheet

I mostly add feature films to my watchlist in batches...around 25-30 at a time. For a month or so, I've been narrowing down a fresh set to add for the new year, but I've also pre-emptively watched 12-13 candidates along the way just to avoid adding them (I don't like my watchlist becoming too large, if possible). Some of these films included "Mother Joan of the Angels," "Threads," "The Lure," "Homo Sapiens," "One More Time with Feeling," "Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea," "The Other Side of Hope" (hrm, not so good) and "Solo: A Star Wars Story."

I still have 40 candidates left to research and sort through -- I'd rather not add much more than half of them. I don't add a stack like this more than a couple of times a year, so getting this process done is kind of a "goal." Otherwise, I don't have film goals beyond just continuing to see interesting/enjoyable stuff. Also, to make some new discoveries. If I were forced to declare rigid goals, they wouldn't have anything to do with ICM awards or rankings. I do loosely work on several pet lists such as Amos Vogel, 500<400, Criterion Collection, 366 Weird, ICM's favorite experimental/avant-garde movies, All Shorts on ICM Lists and Chaotic Cinema, but if I get to a place where none of the remaining films on those lists sound interesting, I'm fine with moving on.

I've long had an arbitrary goal to see every "unofficial" short under 46 minutes that appears on 13 or more lists, but the exasperating snarl of overlapping Academy Award lists has really fouled up this pursuit during the past year. I'm having to trudge through Oscar nominee after Oscar nominee, and most of them are conservative, goodie-goodie and just not fun. I may raise the cut-off threshold to 14 lists sometime soon, because the tally of eligible unseen shorts just keeps creeping upward. Currently, it's 60. Before the Oscar problem became so pronounced, the list's size typically wobbled around the upper 20s.

I've long had an arbitrary goal to see every "unofficial" short under 46 minutes that appears on 13 or more lists, but the exasperating snarl of overlapping Academy Award lists has really fouled up this pursuit during the past year. I'm having to trudge through Oscar nominee after Oscar nominee, and most of them are conservative, goodie-goodie and just not fun. I may raise the cut-off threshold to 14 lists sometime soon, because the tally of eligible unseen shorts just keeps creeping upward. Currently, it's 60. Before the Oscar problem became so pronounced, the list's size typically wobbled around the upper 20s.

Update:

Well, I had whittled this list from 60 down to 49 since writing the above but, today, I find that THIRTY-THREE shorts have newly reached the 13-list threshold. THiRTY-THREE! And every single one of them is an Oscar nominee. GRRRRRRR. I'm virtually forced to raise my threshold to 14 lists now -- I don't want to watch 82 safe, boring Oscar nominees. Oh well. This whole process is wrecked. Who knows...I may have to raise it again to 15, one of these days.

1. Get and maintain plat on the 500<400 list.
2. Finish the One hundred film and one country, Italy list.
3. Watch every available movie (with E-subs) from Will Tremper, Elio Petri, Rolf de Heer, Dino Risi, Vittorio De Sica, Antonio Pietrangeli and Ladislao Vajda

1. Done with the first part.
2. Not started on this yet.
3. Watched the ones available from Tremper. Not started on the others yet.

The more I think about it, I think it's time to just abandon this system altogether.

Yup, I'm out. The redundant Oscar lists spoiled the broth. I skimmed through the 82 remaining titles and wrote down about 25 films that seem modestly interesting. A few of them are quite brief, and I recently downloaded a few others, so that 25 tally will shrink soon. Otherwise, I'm not "assigning" myself to watch this stuff anymore.

1. Finish iCM Forum's 1001 favorite movies (and refinish after the update): currently 2 left
2. Gold on iCM Forum's 500<400: currently 31 left
3. Finish TSPDT All Editions: currently 144 left

That's enough. I'm not doing a rewatch goal again, because I failed two years in a row.

One month gone already?
1. No change. Still 2 left.
2. Watched 12 this month. 19 left for gold.
3. Watched ...?... a bunch and some movies were added, but I can't see at the moment how many of the new ones I've seen, because clicking the "new"-tab doesn't show me the new titles. Weird bug. Anyone else got this? Anyway, currently 145 left.
Btw, I won't be able to finish it, because there are some unavailable movies on the list.

1. Finish iCM Forum's 1001 favorite movies (and refinish after the update): currently 2 left
2. Gold on iCM Forum's 500<400: currently 31 left
3. Finish TSPDT All Editions: currently 144 left

That's enough. I'm not doing a rewatch goal again, because I failed two years in a row.

3. Watched ...?... a bunch and some movies were added, but I can't see at the moment how many of the new ones I've seen, because clicking the "new"-tab doesn't show me the new titles. Weird bug. Anyone else got this? Anyway, currently 145 left.
Btw, I won't be able to finish it, because there are some unavailable movies on the list.

1. Bronze on Lola Award - Best Film (18/71) // +2
2. Gold on Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or (56/91) & Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion (38/62) // +1 (Cannes) and +2 (Venice)
3. 120 Awards in total (7 left)
Gained 5. I did not account for some new lists being added and the awards I gained from these (Cannes Film Festival - Grand Prix & FilmTV's 100 Greatest Italian Films), still this is going way better than I expected with three more awards lining up for February. Don’t think I will adjust the goal, though. Also gained this month: TSPDT 100 Essential Noir Films, Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Films & 500 Essential Cult Movies.
4. Top 300 (climbed up 19 places) // #370 -> #351
5. Read Cinema 1: The Movement Image (0/250) & Cinema 2: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze
Currently reading other books…

ICMMarch Challenge: But at the bottom, the immanent philosopher sees in the entire universe only the deepest longing for absolute annihilation, and it is as if he clearly hears the call that permeates all spheres of heaven: Redemption! Redemption! Death to our life! and the comforting answer: you will all find annihilation and be redeemed!

It wasn't exactly a "goal," but I attained sort of a dubious landmark achievement just within the past few days: My checks dropped to under 50% official. 5087/10190 = 49.9%. (And I don't check TV episodes.)

- All movies on 10+ official lists (13 to go)
- Platinum on Cahiers du cinéma 100 (6 to go)
- Platinum on Reddit top 250 (8 to go)
- Platinum on IMDB top 250 (10 to go)
- Platinum on The 100 Best Films of World Cinema (14 to go)
- Bronze on Yle News’ Best Finnish Films of All Time (21 to go)

+ All films on a personal list of 40 films that my friend made for us to watch and discuss during the year in pubs. (38 to go)

And away we go again with the latest installment of Leopardi's Personal Film Goal updates, Top 225 edition. Here's a breakdown of my progress, showing the number of checks needed at the beginning of the year and today, with completed lists in bold, backslides in red and gains in green:

Goal: Top 225 on every official listFilms left at start of year: 51Target pace to meet goal: 4.25 checks/monthChecks left last month: 51Checks left currently: 56Checks left at this point in 2018/2017/2016/2015: 67/92/84/64Current pace: -5 checks/monthTop 300 goals completed this month: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 1950s, Animation, Annecy Festival's 100 Films for a Century of Animation, Livejournal Russian top 100, Mystery, Paste's The 100 Best Anime Movies of All Time, Shorts, The 100 Most Significant German Films and WarLists that have (re)appeared this month: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 1950s, 1980s, Animation, BBC's 100 greatest films of the 21st Century, Drama, Mystery, The 100 Most Significant German Films, and WarWorst ranking this month: Best of Rotten Tomatoes (#410)Best goal-related ranks: Paste's The 100 Best Anime Movies of All Time and Shorts (#192)

It was a rollicking start to the year, with lots of individual lists completed and yet a significant deficit by the end of the month (demonstration, by the way, that going for a Top 200 this year would have been extremely difficult). The deficit comes mainly from the TSPDT and Rotten Tomatoes updates, along with the usual IMDb fluctuations that we'll likely see throughout the year. I'm not worried at this point, the beginning of the year is usually tumultuous, but with so many smaller goal lists completed early on it's clear most of the year will be spent working on the TSPDT and Sight & Sound lists, which doesn't make for a very interesting year as far as I'm concerned.